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July 11, 2025
Dear Sir or Madam:
Subject: Property Flooding and Insurance Information
You have received this letter because your business provides insurance, lending, banking,
or real estate services within the City of Newport News. The information below is to inform
you and your clients of flood-related property mapping and information services provided
by the City to property owners. These services are intended to make our residents more
aware of potential flood risk and of City programs and information services available.
News updates:
• On April 1, 2022, the City of Newport News successfully joined the National Flood
Insurance Program (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS), making NFIP
policyholders eligible to receive a 15% discount on flood insurance premiums.
• Great news – due to the city’s continued efforts to study current and future flood risk
and share risk information within our community, that discount will increase to 20%
on October 1, 2025.
• Public Meetings – Keep an eye out for meeting notices when we’ll be in your
neighborhood to share what we’ve learned about the future of flood risk in Newport
News and strides we are making to build a more resilient city. Periodic updates and
more flood information can be found in the Newport News Now e-newsletter here:
https://www.nnva.gov/2121/Newport-News-Now.
• Visit our updated Floodplain Management webpage
(https://www.nnva.gov/2982/Floodplain-Management ) and Flood Resilience
webpage (https://www.nnva.gov/2988/Flood-Resilience) to learn more.
Flood Protection Services:
City staff are available to assist you and residents with questions regarding flood risk:
1. Basic Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) information: The City provides basic FIRM
information that is needed to write a flood insurance policy, including if the property
is in the Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA), the date of the FIRM, the FIRM zone, base
flood elevation, where shown on the FIRM. This information is mapped in GIS and is
available to property owners and renters for their specific properties.
2. Additional areas at flood risk: Additional information may include: areas mapped
and regulated outside of the SFHA, limits of moderate wave action, as well as dam
inundation zones.
3. Natural floodplain functions and if the property is located in, or partially in, a
mapped Chesapeake Bay Resource Protection Area: Floodplains offer a broad
area for streams and rivers to spread out and accommodate temporary storage of
floodwater. When runoff is uncontrolled, the floodplain can be pushed beyond its
capacity and areas that normally do not experience flooding may flood as a result.
City of Newport News, 2400 Washington Avenue, Newport News, VA, 23607
Phone: (757) 933-2311 Fax: (757) 926-8300
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